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servermsh

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2. It doesn't matter

Reply to steve2470 (Original post)

Wed Dec 2, 2020, 02:12 PM

Dec 2020

I fully expect some of these yahoos to object. In fact, we can USE this to put pressure on Republicans to divide them.

If no Senator joins him, the nonsense ends immediately.

If a Senator joins him, then the House and the Senate will have a separate vote. If the objection doesn't pass in BOTH the House and the Senate, the objected-to votes will count.

Republicans can't stop this in the Congress (now that certification is out of the way).

Also, there is apparently federal law that is supposed to even prevent these objections if the certification happens before the safe harbor day.

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